Who do you share your birthday with, and what else happened that day?

[Immortal Wombat]

1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born.
1806 - Composer Juan Crisostomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga was born.
1823 - Composer Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was born.
1901 - Composer Giuseppe Verdi was born.

1985 - I was born. Guess what I'm going to be when I grow up...

Oh yeah, and it's now National Holocaust Memorial Day.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by MrFun
On the day I was born (August 29)

[Whaleboy]

February 1
Birthdays

John Ford 1895
Victor Herbert 1859
Clark Gable 1901
Langston Hughes 1902
S.J. (Sidney) Perelman 1904
Renata Tebaldi 1922
Stuart Whitman 1928
Boris Yeltsin 1931
Bob Shane (The Kingston Trio) 1934
Garrett Morris 1937
Don Everly (The Everly Brothers) 1937
Ray Sawyer (Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show) 1937
Sherman Hemsley 1938
Joe Sample 1939
Del McCoury 1939
Terry Jones 1942
Dennis Farina 1944
Rick James 1952
Bill Mumy 1954
Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers) 1954
Exene Cervenka (X) 1956
Sherilynn Fenn 1965
Princess Stephanie (Monaco) 1965
Lisa Marie Presley 1968
Pauly Shore 1970
Big Boi (Outkast) 1975
Jarrett Lennon 1982

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Music History

1669 - Composer Miquel Lopez was born.

1877 - Composer Thomas Frederick Dunhill was born.

1896 - Puccini's opera La Bohème was first staged in Turin, Italy.

1907 - Composer Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was born.

1939 - Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded "And the Angels Sing." Martha Tilton was the vocalist on the song.

1940 - Frank Sinatra sang "Too Romantic" and "The Sky Fell Down" in his first recording session with the Tommy Dorsey Band. Frank replaced Jack Leonard as lead singer with the band.

1956 - The Rock and Roll Ice Revue opened at the Roxy Theater in New York City.

1964 - The governor of Indiana declared that the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen was pornographic. He requested that the state's radio stations not play the song.

1963 - Neil Young, at age 17, performed his first professional date at a country club in Winnipeg.

1969 - Joni Mitchell made her Carnegie Hall debut.

1975 - Lisa Marie Presley met her favorite singer, Elton John, for her seventh birthday. The event was arranged by Elvis Presley.

1976 - "Sonny and Cher" resumed on TV despite a real life divorce.

1977 - The film "Genesis in Concert" premiered in London.

1982 - "Bar-Kays Day" was declared in Memphis, TN.

1985 - Glenn Frey (Eagles) appeared on an episode of "Miami Vice" on NBC-TV.

1986 - Diana Ross and Arne Naess were married in Geneva.

1988 - The Cars disbanded.

1999 - The Lycos Web site began a new search service that offered easy access to a half-million high quality recordings that use MP3.

2000 - C.C. DeVille announced that he was leaving Poison. The band later convinced him to come back.

2002 - Kirk Hammett (Metallica) was the first recipient of the annual Hall of Fame Award in "Guitar World" magazine.

2002 - Winona Ryder was charged with four felony counts that stemmed from her shoplifting arrest on December 12, 2001. She was charged with theft, burglary, vandalism and possession of a controlled substance.

2002 - Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) agreed to enter a counseling program and perform community service in order to get a charge of resisting/opposing a law enforcement officer without violence dropped. Carter had been arrested at a nightclub on January 2, 2002.


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Misc. History

1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.

1790 - The U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York City.

1793 - France declared war on Britain and Holland.

1793 - Ralph Hodgson patented oiled silk.

1861 - Texas voted to secede from the Union. hahahaha Sloww!!

1862 - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly."

1867 - In the U.S., bricklayers start working 8-hour days.

1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.

1893 - Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio in West Orange, NJ.

1896 - Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premiered in Turin.

1898 - The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, CT, issued the first automobile insurance policy. Dr. Truman Martin of Buffalo, NY, paid $11.25 for the policy, which gave him $5,000 in liability coverage.

1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.

1913 - Grand Central Station opened in New York City, NY. It was the largest train station in the world.

1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.

1920 - The first armored car was introduced.

1920 - Canada's Royal North West Mounted Police changed their name to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The organization was commissioned in 1873.

1921 - Carmen Fasanella registered as a taxicab owner and driver in Princeton, New Jersey. Fasanella retired November 2, 1989 after 68 years and 243 days of service.

1929 - Weightlifter, Charles Rigoulet of France, achieved the first 400 pound 'clean and jerk' as he lifted 402-1/2 pounds.

1930 - The Times published its first crossword puzzle.

1946 - Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.

1951 - The first telecast of an atomic explosion took place.

1951 - The first X-ray moving picture process was demonstrated.

1953 - CBS-TV debuted "Private Secretary."

1954 - CBS-TV showed "The Secret Storm" for the first time.

1957 - P.H. Young became the first black pilot on a scheduled passenger airline.

1958 - The United Arab Republic was formed by a union of Egypt and Syria. It was broken 1961.

1960 - Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They had been refused service.

1968 - During the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head. The scene was captured in a news photograph.

1976 - "Sonny and Cher" resumed on TV despite a real life divorce.

1979 - Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a seven-year sentence for bank robbery. Her sentence had been commuted by U.S. President Carter.

1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was welcomed in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.

1985 - Ben Joseph Elijah was born to Jo and Matthew, the world entered an era of light.

1987 - Terry Williams won the largest slot machine payoff, at the time, when won $4.9 million after getting four lucky 7s on a machine in Reno, NV.

1991 - A USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane at Los Angeles International Airport. 35 people were killed.

1994 - Jeff Gillooly plead guilty in Portland, OR, for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, struck a plea bargain under which he confessed to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony implicating Harding.

1996 - Visa and Mastercard announced security measures that would make it safe to shop on the Internet.

1998 - Stuart Whitman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1999 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against U.S. President Clinton.

2001 - Three Scottish judges found Abdel Basset al-Mergrahi guilty of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. The court said that Megrahi was a member of the Libyan intelligence service. Al-Amin Khalifa, who had been co-accused, was acquitted and freed.

2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.


hmmm I guess that means I'm important!! Sorry I cant be bothered to edit it down... besides it conveys an impression of my sheer greatness!

[Alex]

October 31st:

I share my birthday with Jan Vermeer, John Keats, Johnny Marr and John Candy (lots of Johns)
On the other hand, Vanilla Ice was born on this day

Important things that happened:

1517 - Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace Church.

1922 - Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.

1940 - The British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevented Germany from invading Britain.

And a really weird one, I don't know why it is even mentioned:

1993 - The play "Wonderful Tennessee" closed after only 9 performances.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Eli
Feb 21
Of all the people the site lists that were born on the same day... I dont know anyone.

I know a few of them. If you're interested.....

Alan Rickman 1946 - British Movie Actor (the terrorist leader in Die Hard, Sheriff of Nottingham in that Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies, amongst other stuff...)

Kelsey Grammer 1955 - Actor who plays Dr. Frasier Crane in Cheers and Frasier.

Alan Trammell 1958 - Famous Baseball player with the Detroit Tigers. Now their manager.

William Baldwin 1963 - Brother of Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin, but with even less talent.

Charlotte Church 1979 - Welsh singer, sold more than 10 million albums worldwide

Jennifer Love Hewitt 1979 - An american actress of some sort I believe. Probably been in some lame films I haven't seen.

[Imran Siddiqui]

May 30, 1980.

B-Days
1672 - Peter I of Russia
1943 - Gale Sayers
1972 - Trey Parker (YES )

Music History
1968 - The Beatles began recording the "White Album."
1978 - Led Zeppelin began recording "In Through the Out Door."

History
1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.
1814 - The First Treaty of Paris was declared, which returned France to its 1792 borders.
1868 - Memorial Day was observed for the first time in the U.S.
1889 - The brassiere was invented. (WOOO )
1913 - The First Balkan War ended.
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflicts were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1989 - The "Goddess of Democracy" statue (33 feet height) was erected in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

[Stefu]

I'm a Feb 29th baby. I'm sure someone has an amusing joke about that that I've neeeeever heard before.

1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland

1960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago

[Whaleboy]

Am I the only aquarius here??

[Arrian]

Jennifer Love Hewitt 1979 - An american actress of some sort I believe. Probably been in some lame films I haven't seen.

"actress" should probably go in quotes. She's pretty damn bad. But she's also pretty damn hot. She also fancies herself to be a singer, and has albums out there. I've never heard them.

-Arrian

[Proteus_MST]

Let me see, according to this anyday-Link Q-Cubed posted:

People who were born this day (I post only a few out of the large List ):
1404 Constantine XI Dragases last Byzantine Emperor
1773 William Henry Harrison Virginia, (Whigs) 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
1775 Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai Hungary, mathematician (parallel axiom)
1865 Erich von Drygalski German Federal Republic, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic explorer
1871 Howard T Ricketts US pathologist (studied typhus fever)
1885 Alban Maria Johannes Berg Vienna Austria, a Lulu of a composer!
1891 Ronald Colman England, 1947 Academy Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities)
and a lot of Sportsmen from the NFL and NBA as well as some Golfers

Who died this day?
1555 John Hooper deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy
1567 Henry Stuart earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered
1881 Feodor M Dostoevski Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
1948 Karl Valentin German comic/writer, dies at 65
1981 Bill Haley vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55
1984 Yuri Andropov General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
2002 Princess Margaret sister of Queen Elizabeth II of England, dies from a stroke at 71

What happened this day?
1554 Battle at London Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated
1674 English re-conquer New York from Netherlands
1904 Japan declares war on Russia
1943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, epic battle ends
1953 "The Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication
1963 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1969 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
1990 Galileo flies by Venus
1994 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat

[FrustratedPoet]

Yeah, Q Cubed's link is better than mine. Everyone should use his.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by elijah
Am I the only aquarius here??

No. I'm 5 days older than you

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by elijah
Am I the only aquarius here??

Obviously not,

February 9th, therefore also Aquarius (and btw. I wouldn´t like to be of any other Zodiac sign )

[Dry]

May 23, 1961

Douglas Fairbanks 1883
Anatoly Karpov 1951
Karen Duffy 1961 (same day, same year)
Noel Gallagher (Oasis) 1968

Otherwise, it is the 'capture' day:

1430 - Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundians. She was then sold to the English.
1901 - American forces captured Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.
1926 - The French captured the Moroccan Rif capital.
1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
1960 - Israel announced the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

[Japher]

Nov. 12th

Grace Kelly 1929
Jack Oakie 1930
Charles Manson 1934
:b oh, yeah baby, now that's a trio

David Schwimmer 1966

great, I share my day with Monkey boy.

Tonya Harding 1970

Beat me!

Japher 1974

nothing really happened on this day in the year of my birth... except Christ returning to earth!!!!